Cynthia Bass quote: "The only element still surprising was how rapidly Sherman was moving: for whichever direction I looked, he'd been here already, burning and emptying out. The smoldering wood made the air smell cruelly like Christmas."

The life of a soldier seemed like a climb up a stairway without any stairs, only the wooden supporti...
CYNTHIA BASS

I've heard of more ways to die in this war than I knew there were corpses. I've heard there isn't a ...
CYNTHIA BASS

I felt entangled now: this March, this South, this war, history. History could not possibly let the ...
CYNTHIA BASS

I have been a lifelong community activist and frankly did not dream of being in public office.
KAREN BASS

My father was from the South and turned me into a news junkie at a very early age. I would sit and w...
KAREN BASS

I think that women are much more collaborative; men are much more competitive.
KAREN BASS

You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected officia...
KAREN BASS

When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.
KAREN BASS

It's so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern.
KAREN BASS

I'm such a relationship guy. I really am.
LANCE BASS

It's nice not to have to live a double life.
LANCE BASS

I was always the Southern gentleman.
LANCE BASS

I'm used to people talking about me.
LANCE BASS

I'm still Christian. I was not raised in a Christian church to hate people. I was taught to love...
LANCE BASS

Unfortunately, if you don't want to be in the spotlight, get out of it.
LANCE BASS

I definitely didn't want to be that person that came out and was like, 'O.K. I'm going t...
LANCE BASS

Somebody might get criticized for doing some movie that totally sucks, then turn around and be incre...
LANCE BASS

We joke about it in the entertainment industry: Every actor wants to be a musician, and every musici...
LANCE BASS

I'm more liberated and happy than I've been my whole life. I'm just happy.
LANCE BASS

In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, ...
LANCE BASS

I'm a Southerner. We dream of having the family and the kids, and the parents want grandkids, th...
LANCE BASS

There are so many kids out there that need to be adopted and need good homes. I definitely want to h...
LANCE BASS

I'm at peace with my family, my friends, myself and God so there's really nothing else that ...
LANCE BASS

I can't bear looking in the mirror - I guess that's why my hair looks like this.
LANCE BASS

I've always dreamed of having a large family.
LANCE BASS

I love cooking. It's one of my favorite things to do. To share my parents' recipes that I gr...
LANCE BASS

I'm a family guy, so I would love to have a family; I would love to find that perfect person to ...
LANCE BASS

I find that once you start helping others, it makes you feel better about yourself. It helps you fig...
LANCE BASS

He's a couple sandwiches short of a picnic.
LANCE BASS

It doesn't matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have...
LANCE BASS

I've definitely, you know, been with women. And I've had great relationships with them where...
LANCE BASS

The natural world is the only one we have. To try to not see the natural world - to put on blinders ...
RICK BASS

Why did the Clinton Administration wait from 1995 to 1998 to tighten security and bolster counterint...
CHARLES BASS

If you’ve managed to do one good thing,
the ocean doesn’t care.
But when Newton’s ap...
ELLEN BASS

to love life, to love it even
when you have no stomach for it
and everything you've held d...
ELLEN BASS

China has legally purchased high performance computers, advanced machine tools, and semiconductor-ma...
CHARLES BASS

I actually didn't get to go to my prom. I left high school when I was 16 to join 'NSYNC. I f...
LANCE BASS

I think everyone dreams of that nice romantic wedding.
LANCE BASS

You've got to have a sense of humor to keep your sanity.
LANCE BASS

So often survivors have had their experiences denied, trivialized, or distorted. Writing is an impor...
ELLEN BASS

Why did the Clinton Administration continue to liberalize export controls on sensitive technologies ...
CHARLES BASS

The committee discloses that even after the U.S. government learned of the diversion of U.S. designs...
CHARLES BASS

But the technology was accessible, which suggests incompetence on the part of our counterintelligenc...
CHARLES BASS

My club reggae shows were going very good. Every show I did was selling out, ... Barry said 'Why don...
BILL BASS

As soon as (Cliff) stepped onstage, the rain stopped, the clouds parted, the moon came out. Jimmy Cl...
BILL BASS

To be honest, I don't think I was even sophisticated enough then to realize (Red Rocks' appeal),
BILL BASS

Sears.com will be easier and faster to navigate and will have five times as much information about t...
BILL BASS

My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July...
RICK BASS

For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn't due to incompetenc...
CHARLES BASS

'The Wire's definitely one of them. 'The Sopranos' is one of my all-time favorites. ...
BEN BASS

The beginning of the shows are different. One time we'll say 'Hello, Denver'. Another ti...
LANCE BASS

There's no need for me to look back. I made a decision and I'm real happy with it.
BRANDON BASS

College was hard, but it was nothing like this. Everybody just tried to get through the first day. C...
BRANDON BASS

can play with anybody.
BRANDON BASS

Coach has so much confidence in me. If I'm not ready now, I'm getting there. I've been working out h...
BRANDON BASS

It's about seven to 10 minutes from my house. I just love being at home, and my family wanted me to ...
BRANDON BASS

It's been a tough transition,
BRANDON BASS

I know that I have to work even harder.
BRANDON BASS

I think about the (developmental league possibility) a lot. There are some things you can't control,...
BRANDON BASS

It's hard to see all of this. This is big, but it's little, too. With the help of God, anything is p...
BRANDON BASS

They were just being them, the same way they've acted ever since I've known them. I think Glen and T...
BRANDON BASS

Even the largest of my dreams and ambitions, I realize with increasing dismay, were puny, measly, co...
RICK BASS

Learning is like weightlifting. No burn, no learn.
DAVID BASS

I think it's nasty. I think we need to get it cleaned up and we shouldn't be a disposal site for the...
GEORGE BASS

These funds will help to ensure that our first responders have access to the best training and equip...
CHARLES BASS

Despite the best of efforts, many foster children are neither reunited with their families, nor adop...
CHARLES BASS

Many foster children have had difficulty making the transition to independent living. Several are ho...
CHARLES BASS

State and local government, with financial support from the federal government, should offer a progr...
CHARLES BASS

There is a difference between strategic or technical default and default where you really don't ...
CHARLES BASS

The way I navigate scenes is through what I perceive to be the emotional truth of the character: wha...
BEN BASS

Doing this is a complicated dance, since no two employees take feedback in the same way.
CARL BASS

The most important issue is clearly not the quality of treatment and care of these prisoners; rather...
CHARLES BASS

At this point, everything is on the table, ... All possible offset options remain open, including re...
CHARLES BASS

You judge a society by how it treats its most vulnerable citizens,
KAREN BASS

The Cox Report documents a systematic, well-planned effort by the Chinese military at the highest le...
CHARLES BASS

These children should be enrolled in Independent Living programs designed by state and local governm...
CHARLES BASS

I'm disappointed in our effort.
B.J. BASS

There are a lot of positives that we saw tonight. I guess as a coach, you see a lot of things that y...
B.J. BASS

That just can't be an excuse for us. I think we're making some mistakes that we shouldn't make in a ...
B.J. BASS

The maggots told you something, but the decay of the bodies told you something else,
WILLIAM BASS

I and other like-minded members will not vote for the final package when it comes back if it has dri...
CHARLES BASS

Alias' technology spans several of our most important markets and augments the synergy between our d...
CARL BASS

An eye for an eye may make the whole world blind, but a punishment you feel makes it all the more re...
DAN BASS

Over the long term, it will be very good for New Hampshire,
CHARLES BASS

I'm almost evangelical about this, ... I'm burning all renewable energy that comes from New Hampshir...
CHARLES BASS

She helped put on an annual fundraiser dinner in the spring. She loved to decorate hundreds of eggs ...
CHARLOTTE BASS

Some radical paganism went on there.
SCOTT BASS

We made it clear in our meeting, we will not waver in our position,
CHARLES BASS

To heal from child sexual abuse you must believe that you were a victim, that the abuse really did t...
ELLEN BASS

You have the right to set ground rules. This means deciding if, when, and how you want to see the pe...
ELLEN BASS

I do not concern myself with my inability to feel such comfort amidst humans (other than with very f...
RICK BASS

Those are my boys and they know I'm with them. If they stay loose and play the way they have been, I...
BRANDON BASS

even prior to Katrina our nation was feeling the squeeze of record high energy process. The massive ...
CHARLES BASS

... I watched in astonishment, Jess reached up and cupped Miss Georgia's breasts in her hands, givin...
JEFFERSON BASS

As long as I knew my family was OK, I felt very safe. When something doesn't affect you (directly), ...
LANCE BASS

I can't bear looking in the mirror-I guess that's why my hair looks like this.
LANCE BASS

I'll go and I'll host or do whatever (Haskell) wants me to do. Events like these are real special be...
LANCE BASS

We're working on that. We should know this week. I'm a positive person so I always think positively.
LANCE BASS

The beginning of the shows are different. One time we'll say 'Hello, Denver'. Another time we'll say...
LANCE BASS

There is comfort in knowing that you don’t have to pretend anymore, that you are going to do every...
ELLEN BASS

Derivatives cannot hedge derivatives for accounting purposes -- now or under FASB 133, ... Does Dave...
CARL BASS

She participated in and conducted Bible study classes for several years. She will be remembered by m...
CHARLOTTE BASS

It was unbelievable. We sold out day of show in the morning, ... There was a lot of great excitement...
BILL BASS

Our goal was to take the efficiency and convenience of online shopping and humanize it. You want ans...
BILL BASS

You can't ever let your marketing department write a check your back-end can't cash.
BILL BASS

people's experience of a great total shopping experience are going to go way up.
BILL BASS

a higher percentage of ad dollars will be designated for specialty sites, especially those with tech...
BILL BASS

We sell 3,500 different appliances. So our challenge is to figure out how to quickly get you the app...
BILL BASS

Once we get past the credit business, we're figuring out how the dots get connected. We're changing ...
BILL BASS

Our research shows that as much as 15 percent of Sears store sales are influenced by customer resear...
BILL BASS

Most of the characteristics used to determine length of time since death are determined by insect ac...
WILLIAM BASS

We've already got 13,000 homes planned in Central Oahu, and traffic is just unbearable. We'd like to...
WILLIAM BASS

I've never seen an operation that was more coordinated, fewer arguments and disagreements between Au...
CHARLES BASS

He's a couple sandwiches short of a picnic.
LANCE BASS

You've got to have a sense of humor to keep your sanity.
LANCE BASS

It is very devastating, especially having to watch it on television, when you have family members th...
LANCE BASS

Well, how about Cindy Crawford? We would love to see one of the supermodels,
LANCE BASS

It's nice to have a voice and to be able to use it in events like this, ... Mississippi Girl.
LANCE BASS

They didn't want to feel powerless or have to rely on the doctor to make all of the decisions.
SARAH BASS

Intoxication can cause a person to do things they might otherwise not do.
HOWARD BASS

In spite of the horror, in spite of the
tragedy, in spite of the weeks of sleepless
nigh...
ELLEN BASS

Deciding to actively heal is terrifying because it means opening up to hope. For many survivors, hop...
ELLEN BASS

Ceremony. When we've lost that, we've lost everything, and are only wandering in the dark, like chic...
RICK BASS

As you heal, you see yourself more realistically. You accept that you are a person with strengths an...
ELLEN BASS

As the war on terrorism spreads and prolongs, the fruits of ending the threat of terrorism around th...
CHARLES BASS

This can't go on this way indefinitely, ... We need to get this leadership issue behind us.
CHARLES BASS

This is our opportunity to change the leadership of the White House,
CHARLES BASS

It is going to be very hard for them,
CHARLES BASS

If you get a thousand calls in one day, how can you expect to be able to answer them all?
CHARLES BASS

Refineries and distributors could have predicted January would be cold, ... There is much more to th...
CHARLES BASS

Survivors are often good at both resolving and generating crisis. While this capacity to handle cris...
ELLEN BASS

I had five of my top seven sitting on the bench.
ERIC BASS

We did everything we could. We threw three guys on him. He played well. He'll be the best player we ...
ERIC BASS

They open the space they occupy but also the space between where we are and where they are. There is...
ERIC BASS

They do things that seem almost impossible, and they do it beautifully.
ERIC BASS

This show could be a challenge for the Cambodian audience, ... We don't just want to build a bridge,...
ERIC BASS

We live in a Western way of doing things. There is a different understanding what speed is there. We...
ERIC BASS

We had to find a meeting place in everything, ... Every aspect of the piece is a collaboration.
ERIC BASS

We are creating a relationship and we are creating an investment, ... You build trust through the en...
ERIC BASS

It is a leap of faith for all of us,
ERIC BASS

Local people have been asking, but we really want to celebrate next year. We didn't want to miss tha...
ERIC BASS

The Cox Committee found that the Chinese military acquired many of the technologies over the past se...
CHARLES BASS

There are things I want to get done, and If I can reconnect where I was before, working on the issue...
CHARLES BASS

Thinking for yourself and making your own decisions can be frightening. Letting go of other people�...
ELLEN BASS

We wanted a fun way to end the silence. Everyone there was having a great time, and rather than just...
DAVID BASS

As many as half of the participants were straight allies, and they consider themselves part of the g...
DAVID BASS

The day demonstrates that when individuals are homophobic and oppressive toward gay people, it makes...
DAVID BASS

It would be nice if they cancelled classes on Wednesday, but I'm OK with the way the schedule is. We...
DAVID BASS

The election process has not been a shining moment for multicultural affairs. But I am confident tha...
DAVID BASS

It's a positive development because another few days of contested campaigning would do damage to an ...
DAVID BASS

It is certainly the case that the vast majority of endowment funds are restricted for very particula...
DAVID BASS

We're going to peak later, around the time of the VOL meet, and maintain it from there. Right now ou...
GLENN BASS

Spencer is completely talented and Billy's right behind him. They're both workaholics. Billy lives t...
GLENN BASS

It's a good group. They work together well and they're learning how to run as a team. The people tha...
GLENN BASS

We haven't been in a lot of big meets and done a lot of incredible things. We've run in them mostly ...
GLENN BASS

I played a lawyer once, and I had about three or four weeks before we shot, so I was able to go to c...
BEN BASS

I liked 'Deadwood.'
BEN BASS

I love the 'Mildred Pierce' miniseries.
BEN BASS

There's a lot of writing in television that can sound like it's taken out of a package, and ...
BEN BASS

One of the ways that you reveal character is by getting a character into a situation and seeing what...
BEN BASS

I'm sort of awkward with technology, and I think I'm the type of guy who would have somethin...
BEN BASS

Staff should be exploring ways of aggregating information, based on surveys and focus groups, to mak...
GARY BASS

The demand is increasing for government to be more accessible, ... But the way that demand is met is...
GARY BASS

But there is no infrastructure underneath it to get information. There are no business federal ident...
GARY BASS

Regardless of where you work or live, the changes affect you and your community. This is about knowi...
GARY BASS

There's not only a social value that's at stake, there's a self-interest involved,
GARY BASS

What you say may very well be true, but I would feel better hearing what the doctor has to say.
GARY BASS

There's no doubt that people are getting more involved with the government on the Internet to meet t...
GARY BASS

I hate we put the defense in a bind like we did. The opportunities were there. We just failed to pun...
GARY BASS

Staff should be exploring ways of aggregating information, based on surveys and focus groups, to mak...
GARY BASS

We have lost contact with the orbiter; rescue units are moving position.
GARY BASS

We're exactly where we were last year. Nobody sees us coming.
GLENN BASS

This is happening all along the coast, ... Just like the debris, we are everywhere.
GEORGE BASS

You done broke me again! Now I'm walking back to New Orleans.
FRANK BASS

They were walking up the stairs, toting their own bottles,
FRANK BASS

[Bass didn't know what to think.] I asked him, 'Are you gonna give me a copy of that record?' ... He...
FRANK BASS

Healing was a terrifying and painful experience and my life was as full of struggle and heartache as...
ELLEN BASS

This game is really important. We control our own destiny and want to win the OCC.
JANISE BASS

We have to play to our potential, play the game at our pace, go to the boards, follow our shots and ...
JANISE BASS

It was a big win, we had to win to keep our confidence up.
JANISE BASS

I certainly think the door's open. It's up to the city to argue otherwise and a judge to decide it.
HOWARD BASS

The rabbi did not claim any responsibility for the violence. The demonstrators never apologized for ...
HOWARD BASS

I think that's absolutely fair game. Why is he intoxicated if he's on duty?
HOWARD BASS

We can't find a set of keys that belong to the property, and we don't know whether they have it. So ...
HOWARD BASS

Our hanging chairs have been a successful category for pool and spa dealers across the country. We w...
JACK BASS

What actually started the shooting was a highway patrolman firing his carbine in the air a couple of...
JACK BASS

There were problems, major problems that about ripped this district to shreds, ... You know there we...
JACK BASS

I won't support it, ... I don't want anything to do with (Shirley).
JACK BASS

I think he is embarrassed by it.
JACK BASS

Garrison Keillor read several of my poems on 'The Writer's Almanac' and I've heard f...
ELLEN BASS

I wanted to be a writer since I was in high school, but I never thought it was possible.
ELLEN BASS

I think many people love poetry who don't know they love it. People are sometimes afraid of poet...
ELLEN BASS

Last year (the state) rescinded the offer.
LYNN BASS

If they are no longer in the county and no longer producing in the county, they have to pay the loan...
LYNN BASS

I had talked to Mac Farms about a month ago. They indicated they were still working, that they were ...
LYNN BASS

As survivors, we’ve been conditioned to be victims sexually. Many of us have never learned to say ...
ELLEN BASS

Healing isn’t just about pain. It’s about learning to love yourself. As you move from feeling li...
ELLEN BASS

In a way that I haven’t yet figured out how to fully articulate, I believe that children who get t...
RICK BASS

There was a lady at the sink and she was trying to administer something to him. She pulled him into ...
KAREN BASS

The only element still surprising was how rapidly Sherman was moving: for whichever direction I looked, he'd been here already, burning and emptying out. The smoldering wood made the air smell cruelly like Christmas.

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The only element still surprising was how rapidly Sherman was moving: for whichever direction I looked, he'd been here already, burning and emptying out. The smoldering wood made the air smell cruelly like Christmas.

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